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After failing as a parent, I gave up resolutions for two words

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CNN 's Channon Hodge is a single mom by choice of a 20-month-old son.

Hodge: I'm not sure I’ll make it to 2026 .

The “progress principle’s” is a theory that separates a good day from a bad one from a day containing progress or setbacks.

Niecy Nash-Betts and Snoop Dogg gave her the words to tie all that advice together.

Mel Robbins : I started to think that I inadvertently missed out on a whole lot of celebration.

Robbins: Celebrating a small one can be a powerful catalyst for the brain and for self-esteem.

Robbins says it shouldn’t be unorthodox to acknowledge your own accomplishments.

Thank you for carrying your breast pump, your laptop, your collection of milk, your container of cafeteria food and your 15-pound child up two flights of stairs into your new apartment all those days you had to go to the office.

Also thank you for crying when you needed to, even that one time in Bryant Park after your eye doctor’s receptionist snickered.